Blast Pen 12

Blast Pen 12 from an Aerial Photograph of the Airfield from May 1947
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Blast Pen 12 from an Aerial Photograph of the Airfield from April 2020
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Blast Pen 12 Front from May 2020.
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Blast Pen 12 Rear from March 2021.
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Blast Pen 12 Rear Slope from October 2018.
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Blast Pen 12 Machine Gun Post from September 2018.
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  • Pen 12 is the most southerly of the pens on the western side of the airfield and faces east.
  • Today, the pen is complete apart from the front brick walls of each arm and the entire centre wall section.
  • The pen is of the smaller type found at Kenley, the original two bays would have been approximately 16.5m x 16.5m each.
  • Large steel doors secure the all three doorways.
  • All three doorways have single-element lintels.
  • The rear retaining wall is of concrete construction.
  • Access to the rear doorway is via a concrete slope faced by a single thickness brick cladding.
  • Each bay has a soakaway drain situated in the interior corner where the side wall meets the rear. A drainage channel of 0.25m width runs the length of the side wall and leads into the drain.
  • There is a rectangular concrete construction on the left arm which would have housed an anti-aircraft machine gun.
  • The interior shelter is of unknown construction.
  • The centre arm end wall had a buttress fitted for additional strength.

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